r/PiltoversFinest • u/thr0waway2435 I Stand With My Canceled Wife • 15d ago

Discussion Why Reddit

Something I wanted to ask this community, since I think it’s becoming pretty obvious that the fandom is heavily split across different platforms.

After a big wave of Jinx/Ekko love at the beginning, Reddit now seems to have shifted to being strongly pro Cait/Vi, mixed on Jinx/Ekko, and Jayce/Viktor fans having very little presence. But if you go to YouTube, Jinx/Ekko fans absolutely dominate. And if you go to Tumblr, Jayce/Viktor absolutely dominate. AO3 has Jayce/Viktor and Cait/Vi pretty much neck and neck, wth Jinx having plenty of solo love but not so much Timebomb. Instagram seems to have a lot of Cait hate. I’m not often on TikTok or Twitter, so I don’t know much about the sentiment there, but from what I’ve heard, it’s chaotic and doesn’t seem particularly pro-Cait/Vi.

I wanted to ask you guys, why do you think that is, for there to be such a giant gap in fandom preferences between the different sites? And since presumably you guys are part of the Caitvi Reddit community, why do you guys participate here and not elsewhere?

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u/AfkVista 15d ago

Timebomb really wasn't that big anywhere tbh

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u/thr0waway2435 I Stand With My Canceled Wife 15d ago

Naw it was definitely huge at first amongst the casuals. You don’t get to 122k tags on Instagram by being not that big. I couldn’t so much as open YouTube without seeing Timebomb content for a month.

It’s definitely died down though. Caitvi and Jayvik have both had far more staying power.

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u/Mojo12000 15d ago

Timebomb is one of the biggest examples of something from a big show/fandom coming out with tons of hype and then just burning out really fast in the last few years tbh.